Aspiring aviators can now prepare to fly higher and faster, as Microsoft Game Studios is happy to announce that the first service pack for the AIAS award-winning Flight Simulator X is now available. Service Pack 1 will:

it does not. i've tested it on my core 2 quad, barely used two cores. my friend's i7 also only used up two cores.

FSX wants cpu speed OVER cores. a 4ghz core 2 duo will perform better than a 2.8ghz core 2 quad, but if that quad was at 4ghz, it would have better performance obviously, but until then, the dual is gonna get better FPS in FSX.

Yeah everyone kept thinking that in the FS community that you needed some beefy CPU. That flight sim is all CPU. What people found out though is its actually ram, vram and HDD. Some guy figured out how it does stuff and its really goofy and really unstable.

Yeah everyone kept thinking that in the FS community that you needed some beefy CPU. That flight sim is all CPU. What people found out though is its actually ram, vram and HDD. Some guy figured out how it does stuff and its really goofy and really unstable.

The game is just horribly coded.

It's from 2006... and the dev team is gone. What did you expect? The i7 wasn't even launchesd yet (the C2D just launched lat year...)